The Shoot

When the model arrived to my flat she was all fresh faced and ready for me to do her make-up, normally I am pretty relaxed about doing the hair and make-up myself but because it was promised a make-up artist was going to be doing it I felt like I had to do something more adventurous and was worried it was going to go wrong.
Luckily it didn't, the YouTube video was playing in the back ground even though her eye make-up doesn't look exactly like how the professional did it, I felt like I gave it a very good go and suited the model so at least it looked the part.
When heading out for the shoot the sky was quite dull, my aim on this shoot was to use triggers and a soft box for the lighting but unfortunately my flash needs to be set off by another Cannon Speedlite flash gun so was unable to use the lighting the way I wanted.
I got my assistant to stand behind me with the soft box and I pointed my flash backwards so I could still use it as a reflector.
The girl used for the shoot contacted me after seeing my advert about needing female models who wouldn't really make it in the fashion industry due to not tall enough, slim enough etc.
Livy is very tall, well next to me she seems it and when looking at her figure I personally would say its perfect however in the fashion industry they wouldn't argue about this they would just class her as a plus size model even though through my eyes I would say she is a perfect size to be a normal run way model (what do I know eh).
So my aim on this photo shoot was to make her look her absolute best and focus on areas which complimented her.
Later on in the shoot she became more confident when changing outfits, you can see this through my pictures as they look better and the sun came out so turned off my flash and used natural lighting.
We experimented going to different areas with a grunge look to them to contrast against the model.